2010 Dakar Rally *SPOILERS*

[Mothers Worry]

Sainz clinches Dakar Rally victory 

From autosport.com:

Sainz clinches Dakar Rally victory 

Saturday, January 16th 2010, 16:47 GMT

Carlos Sainz resisted Volkswagen team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah's late challenge to clinch his first Dakar Rally victory.

Stage 14:

Pos  Driver                Car         Time/Gap
 1.  Nasser Al-Attiyah     VW          1h19m42s
 2.  Carlos Sainz          VW             + 36s
 3.  Guerlain Chicherit    BMW            + 43s
 4.  Stephane Peterhansel  BMW          + 1m08s
 5.  Mark Miller           VW           + 1m39s
 6.  Giniel de Villiers    VW           + 1m41s
 7.  Robby Gordon          Hummer       + 1m58s
 8.  Orlando Terranova     Mitsubishi   + 2m28s
 9.  Robert Baldwin        Hummer       + 3m15s
10.  Nicolas Misslin       Mitsubishi   + 4m20s

Overall:

Pos  Driver                Car           Time/Gap
 1.  Carlos Sainz          VW           47h10m00s
 2.  Nasser Al-Attiyah     VW             + 2m12s
 3.  Mark Miller           VW            + 32m51s
 4.  Stephane Peterhansel  BMW         + 2h17m21s
 5.  Guerlain Chicherit    BMW         + 4h02m49s
 6.  Carlos Sousa          Mitsubishi  + 4h31m45s
 7.  Giniel de Villiers    VW          + 5h10m19s
 8.  Robby Gordon          Hummer      + 6h02m24s
 9.  Orlando Terranova     Mitsubishi  + 6h04m47s
10.  Guilherme Spinelli    Mitsubishi  + 6h13m41s

[Mothers Worry]

Sainz 'extremely proud' of Dakar win

From autosport.com:

Sainz 'extremely proud' of Dakar win

Monday, January 18th 2010, 10:45 GMT

Carlos Sainz says he is 'extremely proud' after taking victory in this year's Dakar rally with the Volkswagen team.

The former world rally champion clinched his first victory of the event in which he made his debut in 2006, beating team-mate Nasser Al-Attiyah by just over two minutes after 14 stages.

Sainz admitted it was hard to choose the greatest victory of his career, but admitted he was very proud of his achievement this year.

Since the race isn't in Africa any more I would seriously love to see it held in Australia one year.

Surely this country has all the diversity of terrain available to make for a good event.